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Re: Throwing out random thoughts about the whole non-free imbraglio



On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:25:23AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> There's a real complaint: confused users and developers think that 'non-free' 
> is part of the Debian distribution.  How to solve this without slaying 
> non-free?  Here are some ideas, in increasing degree of drasticness.
> 
> * Have the Debian project introduce a new server called something like 
> "third-party.debian.org" to host non-free.  Emphasize that these packages are 
> *not* part of the distribution by making users select this server separately 
> in their apt sources list.

or better yet, as someone else suggested in another thread,
rename non-free to non-debian...?  I think that's about as clear as
you can be that it's not part of debian :)

--sean

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